Training Fido

24/06/2026

🌞🐾 It was 23 degrees at Barton on Sea beach this morning at 6.10am !
So it is going to be a hot one 🔥🥵
Walk your dogs later today, I was out with Smudge at 10pm last night and even then he found it to hot.
Remember no dog died from not having a walk.
Play indoors, lots of mental stimulation, even do some simple basic training just to keep the mind active.
Stay safe in this heat 🥵🔥🌞

Be like Smudge and chill 😎😀

21/05/2026

The Heat Is Rising! ☀️ 🌡️
Your Dog Needs You More Than Ever

Every summer, emergency vets treat hundreds of dogs for heat related illness and tragically, many of these cases are entirely preventable. Too often, dogs are exercised during the hottest parts of the day, when their bodies simply can’t cool down effectively.

Know The Signs of Heat Stroke
Acting quickly can save a life, watch out for:

Excessive panting
Heavy drooling
Vomiting
Collapse or weakness
Red or darkened gums
Disorientation or confusion

How to Protect Your Dog
Small changes can make a big difference:
🐾 Walk early in the morning or later in the evening
💧 Always carry fresh water
🌳 Stay in the shade whenever possible
🚫 Avoid intense or prolonged exercise
🏡 Never leave your dog in a car - even for a short time

Heat-related illness is almost always preventable. With a few simple adjustments, you can help keep your dog safe, comfortable and happy, even on the hottest days.

Keeping Your Dog
Cool in Summer
Recognising the signs of heatstroke and knowing what to do could save your dog’s life...Large breeds, obese, flat-faced and very young dogs will find these temperatures uncomfortable
Or if the dog has underlying health conditions.

⛱️ 🐶🐾

09/05/2026

This article below applys to all dog training.
Time, patience and understanding.
And you will build a bond like no other with your faithful friend
🐾

Forgive yourself for not knowing earlier what only time could teach.

That might be one of the hardest parts of gundog training.

Not the cold mornings. Not the long days. Not the setbacks, the missed retrieves, the frustration or the doubt. But learning not to punish yourself for the things experience had to teach you slowly.

Because nobody starts this journey already knowing everything. Nobody begins understanding pressure, patience, fairness, instinct, drive, sensitivity, confidence, restraint or trust. Those lessons are earned.

Earned through repetition, through mistakes, through watching your dog closely enough to realise they were communicating with you long before you learned how to listen.

When we first start training, we often think progress comes from doing more. More commands. More control. More correction. More pressure. But time teaches you something different.

The best handlers are usually quieter. Calmer. Clearer. More patient. They stop trying to overpower the dog and start trying to understand it and that understanding only comes with experience.

There are things I wish I knew earlier. Moments I’d handle differently now. Sessions I’d redo with softer hands and a calmer mind.

But regret is useless if it ignores growth.

The version of you back then could only work with the knowledge you had at the time and if you know better now, it means you learned.

That matters.

Dogs have a beautiful way of keeping us humble. They expose inconsistency immediately. They mirror frustration. They force patience out of impatient people. They teach discipline to emotional handlers. They remind us that trust cannot be rushed. A finished gundog is not created overnight and neither is a good handler.

Both are shaped slowly, season after season, mistake after mistake, lesson after lesson.

So forgive yourself for what you didn’t know earlier. Because some things cannot be taught quickly. Some things only arrive with time, experience and enough humility to keep showing up and learning anyway and maybe that’s what makes this journey so rewarding in the first place. 🤍

08/04/2026

Another course comes to an end it's amazing what you can achieve with consistent training. Even 5 minutes a day can start to establish positive results.
Steve & Maxine are so pleased with Cody's progress. Especially with his lead walking. He has good recall

08/04/2026

Well done to Carl & Sam for completing their 6 week training course. Carl has never owned a dog and had no experience in handling one. Sam belongs to Carls girlfriend and is 10 years old.
When Sam started training he was unresponsive, and use to doing his own thing. Didn't respond to his name.
The progress these 2 have made has been impressive. It has been so lovely to see the bond between them grow. Sam is a happier boy and far more focused than when he started. He now has a recall and a recall away from distractions. Responds to leave it and can sit and wait.
Just goes to show you it's never to late to start training and turn things around!
So proud of their progress 😁